By Andrew L. Jaffee

… “We should prepare our children and men for jihad,” she said.

The crowd responded with shrill chants of “we are ready” and “al jihad”. …

Such was the atmosphere at a perverse Islamist rally held last week in Islamabad, Pakistan: Female protesters calling for their children and husbands to kill “infidels” by killing themselves. I hope the generation of Westerners who grew up listening to Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s Teach Your Children will take note. From the Mail Online:

About 2,000 Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a similar rally.

Chanting slogans of “jihad is our way”, burqa-clad women, some with babies, listened to fiery speeches from the daughter of the mosque’s jailed cleric on the eve of the anniversary of a commando raid on the complex in which more than 100 people died.

“Our mujahideen (fighters) laid down their lives for the enforcement of the Islamic system in Pakistan. We are left behind to carry forward their mission,” the daughter of cleric Abdul Aziz told the tightly guarded rally in the mosque compound. …